Solaris 8 build fails at gnome-vfs-utils.c

[Pierre-Yves Taczynski <py-taczynski ti com>]

Hello all,

my first message on tjis list is to report a problem building 
garnome-0.28.2 on a Solaris 8 box.

So after fixing:

- in garnome-0.28.2/gnome/glib/Makefile
   set CONFIGURE_ARGS = $(DIRPATHS) --with-libiconv=gnu

   rm -rf garnome-0.28.2/gnome/glib/cookies/main.d/configure*

to correct this (popular) error
gconvert.c:47:2: #error GNU libiconv not in use but included iconv.h is 
from libiconv
gconvert.c: In function `g_iconv':
gconvert.c:170: warning: passing arg 2 of `libiconv' from incompatible 
pointer type

- in 
garnome-0.28.2/gnome/gtk+/work/main.d/gtk+-2.3.0/gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c
   if (filter_index < 0)

to correct this (also popular) error concerning gtkfilechooserdefault.c

- for this error:
==> Configuring cross-prefix GARNOME compatibility...
if [ -x "`which gconftool-1 > /dev/null`" ]; then \
   echo we have gc1; \
   export GC1=$(dirname `gconftool-1 --get-default-source | cut -d : -f 
3`); \
   echo "xml:readonly:$GC1/gconf.xml.mandatory" >> 
/tool/unsupported/garnome/0.28.2/etc/gconf/2/path ; \
   echo "xml:readonly:$GC1/gconf.xml.defaults" >> 
/tool/unsupported/garnome/0.28.2/etc/gconf/2/path ; \
fi
/bin/sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected

We have to used bash and not sh.
Question: where can I solve this issue without copying bash as sh under 
/bin?

I get now this error:
gnome-vfs-utils.c: In function `gnome_vfs_get_volume_free_space':
gnome-vfs-utils.c:813: error: storage size of `statfs_buffer2' isn't known
make[9]: *** [gnome-vfs-utils.lo] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory 
`/tool/unsupported/freesoft/build/garnome-0.28.2/gnome/gnome-vfs/work/main.d/gnome-vfs-2.5.2/libgnomevfs'

I can uncomment the section returning the error but it will fail later 
so I'd like your point of view on this one.

thank you.  

--
Pierre-Yves Taczynski
email: py-taczynski ti com